We're Employed, and We're dying inside.

I have a very nice one, there's just a lot of hills along the way and I don't want to tire myself out even more.
Also, according to company policy if a costumer stabs me in the neck I can't hit them back without losing my job.

I work as a painter. house, not picture. i was once asked to paint a huge room at a tennis club. 8-10k sqr ft, 20ft high ceiling. they gave me a color called 'flamingo pink'. i asked if they wanted me to paint a test spot first to see if they liked it, but no, they were much smarter than stupid manual labor painter. so i did the whole room. when i'm done, they come to inspect...'eeeww, that color is awful! repaint it!', like i'm the one who picked it. i didn't mind, i got paid by the hour. they ended up paying double for labor and materials. at least a third of my work is repainting after some schmuck tried to do it himself. it's funny to me how many people think painting is something any idiot can do. i must admit, when i went to trade school, i picked painting because i thought it would be easy.

edible, thats just fuckin ridiculous, I mean wont that just be self defense! So they can be killing you out there and youre not supposed to do anything... I hope there arent many psychos out there. I guess obese kids wont be stabbing you, hopefully

mason, it is really difficult to create an idiot proof system. Maybe you should give a "YOUR SUBMISSION FAILED" message in 40px so they cant miss it. A lot of people, regular folks, seem to ignore popups and dont read them. Seriously though, why are you using popups...

earl, thank god for stupid people in your case then since they pay you extra for it hihihihihi

I'm a lifeguard at my old high school pool. There's was this real creeper there, Rick, who is like 45. He had a really problem. He creeped out all of the guards, including my boss, hit on the 16 year old guard chicks, liked to fall asleep on his 15 minute breaks, coming in drugged or drunk, not coming in to work sometimes and that just a start. He even admitted he couldn't save someone if they started drowning

Our pool is split in to sections by a movable bulkhead that sets apart the swimming section and the diving section. One day, after not coming into work for 3 days, he came in. He was standing on the bulkhead guarding when someone went to relieve him. He had fallen asleep, standing, with water half a foot away on either side of him. We tapped him until he woke up, then my boss fired him. Though I gotta feel sorta sorry for the guy. He also got fire from his other lifeguard job for the same reason

We were all glad he is gone, though.

Dark, he shouldve been fired long ago. I mean being allowed to be there drugged and whats his purpose there anyway if he cant do what hes supposed to do... it couldve been something if he was hot and atleast be an eye candy but em...

He is probably depressed because he is a 45 year old life guard.

Do you work at Wal-mart? If I remember right there was this guy who defended himself from a punching customer and gets fired the next day.



We use javascript alerts for "popup messages". Whoops, my bad, vagueness. Changed some post content to "alert". Sorry.

I did work on that page knowing we'd encounter idiots, but I honestly did not expect that many. That incident did do something positive, though - all registration complaints are now being answered first with "Did you read the popup message, sir?". Basically an "idiot filter" ^_^

Mason, well sometimes you have to love the customer service dept hihihi. I used to use JS extensibly in forms stuff, but other people have been telling me its not a good/safe idea coz it can be turned off - messed around with.

I guess I can say something about me too. One time this employee made a fuzz to the higher ups saying the online system is "BROKEN". When I checked on this person, she doesnt know she needs to type in a password on the password box. Some, cant even spell their names. Would you believe some people dont even know what an email is.

I can understand lack of tech knowledge but the hardest to deal with is if they speak a completely different language... and for some weird reason they think everyone here in CA must speak spanish and get mad coz you only speak english

I am currently engaged in corporate trench warfare and I'm beginning to acquire a taste for it.
Over the past month, I have gotten three superiors fired and two moved to Hell City.
This is like Rambo versus The Hobbit.
On the downside, I've worked 420 hours during the last five weeks and my only day off for February and March was this Friday, 'cause week-ends are for little girls, and every week I've taken part in 2-3 "emergency meetings" (read: corporate maulings). The next meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, 9 o'clock. Let's see if I'm still going to be employed tomorrow by 10!

Tell me more.

If all posts were as good as yours my world would be much simpler.

Gibs, unless youve been neglecting your duty you should be fine... I hope. Though these superiors that got it hard probably have other subordinates who might actually like them, I mean they can be more observant and critical of your work as well.

Well, hope youre still there by 10!

Originally I'd signed for six hours and no minute more, as I wanted my afternoons free to spend with you-know-who. So I'd normally roll in at 6, punch out at 12. Easy, right?

Then there was a violent psychotic interlude, where an aging member of the House of Saud came here as a medical tourist to get operated on and didn't like the service. So, he complained. And the clinic responded with decimation. So, all HT, VHT (gibbous is one of them), CS and VCS staff had a sitdown with management, and management told us upfront what the solution to this "crisis" would be: Them flipping a lid and glaring at everyone like the enraged motherfuckers they were. Also, decimation: Each section was to fire one or two peons to placate Him, His Infernal Majesty Baal I. of Saud. You know decimation, right? The way the ancient romans punished mutinous legions. All soldiers stand in a row, and every 10th soldier gets the sword. That's what happened here.

Long story short, they laid off the most diligent co-worker in my section, meaning I had now my job and hers to do. My immediate superior is one year from retirement, and spends his day showing disgusting baby pictures of his grandkids to everyone and jerking it in the broom closet and then going home, meaning I now had my job and the fired girl's and my boss's to do. And suddenly I am now working a 12hr schedule from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Let me tell you - I was, and still am, not happy.

Now this was already driving me close enough to quitting as is, especially seeing how "certain" people were very vocal about their opinion as to me best walking out of my shift, because the clinic didn't "deserve someone like me". In any case, in this very situation one of my supervisors decided to come in and fling feces in order to make himself feel better. Better about the fact that everyone laughs about him and he has no authority whatsoever, because EVERYBODY in the company knows he only got his post by selling his soul - i.e. boning the CEO's drop-dead-ugly, mentally handicapped (literally) daughter.
So he ordered me to do things not in my contract. I asked him to repeat his order thrice (legal reasons). I did what he ordered me to, then sent a glowing "mission accomplished" mail to him, and BCCd that mail, "accidentally" to the CLO, the Chief Comptroller and the Ministry of Health's top-echelon supervisor for our clinic.

The next day, this superior was let go.

At this point, things came to a head. His top butt-buddies came to scream (literally) at me within a few days, hoping to intimidate me into quittance. In front of about fifteen witnesses.
I had all co-workers present sign a legal testimony of the things said, then sent a memo with a carbon copy of that to the CLO, the Chief Comptroller and the Ministry of Health's top-echelon supervisor for our clinic. I also enclosed print-outs of certain documents which these two aforementioned wash-outs had left in the company's shared mail folder, pointing at least to plans they had for embezzling company funds. Also, conveniently, e-mails where they and two of their peons made all sorts of juvenile mockery of the CLO, whom nobody in the company has ever gotten along with except for a) the woman who is now the CLO's wife and also coincidentally the Chief Comptroller b) gibbous.

The next day, the CEO's desk sent a mail to:ALL about "mister x and mrs y having left the company this morning", and that their two peons had been posted to Сарајево, where our clinic is having this charity-cooperative with a local hospital, teaching them HOW TO: HOSPITAL, a place that everyone fucking dreads and nobody wants to go, ever.

Ever since, every day has been all-out nuclear war. I'm basically just trying to get as many business blowjobs fired before I get the axe myself.
What I got going for myself is that I am very closely acquainted with the CLO and the Chief Comptroller, who basically run this hospital, just the two of them. Also, that I know many of the business clowns' dirty secrets by way of having put up a jovial front towards them at all times. Also, I'm close to unfireable because if I walk out of my shift, medical imaging is DEAD for a month plus.
What they got going for themselves is connections, and tons of them. Moreover, the CEO is definitely not happy about having had to lay off his son-in-law, and neither are his cronies about the other firings. Management sees this as an open, all-out assault on their authority; three "of their own kind" got fired and two moved to the Gulag because a lowly VHT, a law-shark and the top bean-counter weren't going to put up with their stupid shit? Unacceptable.

No quarter for any who try to abuse their authority. i salute you gibb.

If you don't get shot tomorrow, tell us the rest of the story.

Either you live in Bosnia or I'm slowly narrowing down the possibilities.

So I wasn't the only one who read that as Sarajevo? Anyway, good on you, gibbous for standing up to asses who abuse their authority. Also, the way you got your shitty bosses fired using detailed proof and legal procedure is really fucking badass!

Lmao! Crazy... I hope you don't get fired, dude. Do you like the CLO?

Damn Gibbs, and I thought we dont bow to royalty... Well, I always find it humorous, people who have a top position coz of genetics - directly or not. They may not be capable of firing you at the moment but as you said, it jsut takes a month to replace you... they can be searching now. I can only hope for the best and well hope you dont get sacked, unless you already just want to get outta there. Youre good, I mean it might not be that hard for you to find another place.

Words aren't enough to describe epicness of this post.